about us
boasblogs are a series of topic-related blogs that take up current issues relating to the anthropological sciences, discuss them in their controversiality in a wide circle of contributors, and at the same time ask about the public role and social relevance of anthropological knowledge.
All boasblogs, as public anthropology, aim to make scientific findings accessible to a broader public in order to make a critical-constructive contribution to current social debates and to help shape social relations on various political, social, and everyday levels.
Each boasblog is published and organized by different and independent editorial teams. Suggestions for new topics and editorial teams are always welcome at: info@boasblogs.org
The boasblogs papers compile selected discussions on boasblogs around a specific topic and make these contributions available online and in print.
boasblogs was founded by Christoph Antweiler, Ehler Voss, and Martin Zillinger in 2016. The current editors are: Franziska Fay (U Mainz), Michi Knecht (U Bremen), Ferdiansyah Thajib (U Erlangen-Nürnberg), Ehler Voss (U Bremen), and Martin Zillinger (U Cologne)
about the blogs
So far, 15 boasblogs have been released, each supervised by different editorial boards. Please find a detailed description of the history and concept of boasblogs and its individual topics in the open access article Zwischen ›Public Anthropology‹ und ›Anthropology in Public‹. Schreiben vor, für, mit und gegen Öffentlichkeiten: die boasblogs [Between ‘Public Anthropology’ and ‘Anthropology in Public’. Writing observed by, for, with, and against publics: the boasblogs] by Ehler Voss, published in Hansjörg Dilger, Gisela Welz, Beate Binder, Thomas G. Kirsch (eds.) 2025, Public Anthropology. Wissenspraktiken und gesellschaftliche Interventionen der ethnologischen Fächer. Weinheim: Campus, 375–389.
The blog series is funded by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen, the interdisciplinary and collaborative reearch platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) at the University of Bremen and the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne.
about us
boasblogs are a series of topic-related blogs that take up current issues relating to the anthropological sciences, discuss them in their controversiality in a wide circle of contributors, and at the same time ask about the public role and social relevance of anthropological knowledge.
All boasblogs, as public anthropology, aim to make scientific findings accessible to a broader public in order to make a critical-constructive contribution to current social debates and to help shape social relations on various political, social, and everyday levels.
Each boasblog is published and organized by different and independent editorial teams. Suggestions for new topics and editorial teams are always welcome at: info@boasblogs.org
The boasblogs papers compile selected discussions on boasblogs around a specific topic and make these contributions available online and in print.
boasblogs was founded by Christoph Antweiler, Ehler Voss, and Martin Zillinger in 2016. The current editors are: Franziska Fay (U Mainz), Michi Knecht (U Bremen), Ferdiansyah Thajib (U Erlangen-Nürnberg), Ehler Voss (U Bremen), and Martin Zillinger (U Cologne)
about the blogs
So far, 15 boasblogs have been released, each supervised by different editorial boards. Please find a detailed description of the history and concept of boasblogs and its individual topics in the open access article Zwischen ›Public Anthropology‹ und ›Anthropology in Public‹. Schreiben vor, für, mit und gegen Öffentlichkeiten: die boasblogs [Between ‘Public Anthropology’ and ‘Anthropology in Public’. Writing observed by, for, with, and against publics: the boasblogs] by Ehler Voss, published in Hansjörg Dilger, Gisela Welz, Beate Binder, Thomas G. Kirsch (eds.) 2025, Public Anthropology. Wissenspraktiken und gesellschaftliche Interventionen der ethnologischen Fächer. Weinheim: Campus, 375–389.
The blog series is funded by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen, the interdisciplinary and collaborative reearch platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) at the University of Bremen and the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne.
